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Early Scottish Statisticians and their lasting legacy

2025/10/06 by Z. Zhang · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · #Census and Population Estimation #Philosophy and History of Science

paper · doi:10.1093/jrssig/qmaf078

openalex publication_date 2025/10/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23

Abstract

Abstract In his winning entry to the 2025 Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing, Zhaoxi Zhang celebrates three Scottish statistical pioneers in all their human glory – including the one who gave us the English word “statistics”

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